May 2009

Good-bye old receipts, hello dinner

May 26, 2009

As a compulsive expense-tracker, I drop credit-card receipts into a file folder after having entered the charges in Excel. After a few months, disposing of the resulting fat collection of paper can present a challenge. The wad quickly builds up to enough to choke a shredder, and besides, who wants to stand next to a [...]

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Carnival of Personal Finance

May 25, 2009

This week’s CoPF is up at Greener Pastures. More about that in the next Moments of Fame, scheduled later this week. Meanwhile, though, in addition to visiting Greener’s excellent round-up, which has a great Memorial Day theme, remember that Funny hosts the Carnival of Personal Finance next week! Yayyy! Be sure to send in your [...]

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INSIGHT! Thinking outside the (digital converter) box

May 25, 2009

 Well, by golly, it works! All four of KAET’s digital channels come in loud and more or less clear. Hallelulah, brothers and sisters! Four more channels with nothing on to watch! Copyright © 2009 Funny about Money

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The High Cost of Culture: 16 low-cost routes to the better life

May 24, 2009

Frugal Scholar reports on a wonderful day at the New Orleans Jazzfest (and ancillary activities), a good reason to live in or visit New Orleans. In passing she remarks that folks grouse about the $43–$50 ticket prices. That sounds like quite a bargain for twelve stages (!) hosting over seventy performances. Some months ago my [...]

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How to raise the hair on your head

May 23, 2009

A FaM reader responded to Funny’s sassy rant about the use of Roundup and other politically incorrect lazinesses, with the suggestion that perhaps this was a little too blithe. Unfortunately, she sent her observation as an e-mail rather than as a comment, but along with her remarks she sent a link to an eyeball-popping documentary [...]

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The great no-’poo experiment!

May 22, 2009

Check out Chance’s new project at Room Farm: an experiment to spring free of commercial shampoos! Can’t wait to see how this works out. Some Blogger sites refuse to recognize my existence in any permutation, and Chance’s is one of them. So I’ll try just adding my two cents here: Back in the Cretaceous, we [...]

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